On the cusp of the 30th Anniversary of the rollout of the iconic Macintosh 128K model, the Mac market couldn’t be in better shape, all things considered. There are more Mac users than ever before, more native Mac applications available, covering more markets, and more developers are coding those programs....

A Bitcoin storage service that insures deposits of the digital currency against loss and theft has launched in London. Elliptic Vault uses “deep cold storage”, where private encrypted keys to bitcoins are stored on offline servers and in a secure location. The facility’s founders say they are the “first in...

Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is testing unmanned drones to deliver goods to customers, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos says. The drones, called Octocopters, could deliver packages weighing up to 2.3kg to customers within 30 minutes of them placing the order, he said. However, he added that it could take up...

IsoHunt, a popular website offering BitTorrents of mostly pirated material, is to shut down following a court settlement. The site’s owner, Canadian Gary Fung, has agreed to pay $110m (£68m) to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). MPAA chairman Chris Dodd said the move was a “major step forward”...

Apple is probably the biggest and most recognised tech companies in the world. It releases new and innovative products every year but like most companies it started small and had a few problems along the way. Here are some interesting and astonishing facts that you may never had known about Apple: The...

The revolution has happened! Those with the ideas and know how are in control. All hail the techpreneurs! So I’m being a little melodramatic and the image might convey something more sinister but things have changed. The old start-up model is over, technology entrepreneurs (techprenuers) are bypassing investment from rich shadowy...

Marketing your app successfully starts from the very beginning by identifying a need and customer base Technology today has brought entertainment, news, and life to our fingertips. Our mobile phones, tablets, and other internet enabled handheld devices are capable of showing us the world, from the creative minds of artists...

The 2nd Welsh Mobile App Showcase took place at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea with over 30 companies exhibiting. The event is organised and funding by the Centre of Excellence in Mobile Applications and Services (CEMAS) a Welsh Assembly funded program that provide support to Welsh companies. The programme this year also...

Earlier this year, Apple and Google both showcased their latest and greatest operating systems. First up was Apple, who gave a preview of iOS 6 at their renowned World Wide Developers Conference and Google followed shortly after showing off their latest OS Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Leading mobile app development company Mubaloo...

“HOW DO I MAKE THE MOVE FROM PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT TO IT CONTRACTING?” It’s a question I’m asked several times a day and for good reason, IT professionals are lured to IT contracting for the financial gain & exposure to a wider variety of technologies / business environments as well as the flexibility on offer. At first IT...

China’s biggest internet retailer says it has begun testing drone-based deliveries to hundreds of customers. It says the trial will last three days and be limited to areas within a one-hour flight of its distribution centres in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The company’s blog adds that it believes the technology has the potential to speed...

Facebook is working on implementing artificial intelligence on the popular social networking site in a bid to protect its users from posting drunk messages and pictures that they might regret in the future. At some point in the future when your drunken self will think it’s perfectly fine to upload certain embarrassing selfies to Facebook,...

The next version of Apple’s iOS has been jailbroken by Chinese hackers, weeks before it is even been released to the public. Jailbreaking is a term used for the process of removing the restrictions placed on Apple from its operating system iOS. After jailbreaking a phone the owner is able to download non-approved applications. Unlike...

A Nigerian IT worker is being sought by police for his alleged role in co-ordinating a £25m ($40m) cyber-theft at a bank in Abuja where he worked. Godswill Oyegwa Uyoyou is being sought by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). A wanted notice claims he helped conspirators dressed as maintenance staff get into the bank...

Hey, web developer dudes and dudettes: What’s your favorite programming language? Is it CSS? Is it JavaScript? Is it PHP, HTML5, or something else? Why choose? A new programming language developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University is all of those and more—one of the world’s first “polyglot” programming languages. Sound cool? It is, except its development is...

Apple is officially a step closer to owning Beats, as the $3 billion merger has just been cleared in Europe. The EU commission ruled that the merger “did not raise concerns because the combined (headphone) market share of Apple and Beats Electronics is low.” That might sound like an odd thing to say about Apple,...

The BBC has apologised after sending two test breaking news alerts in error to BBC News app subscribers. The text of the alerts included “NYPD Twitter campaign ‘backfires’ after hashtag hijacked”. They were sent to millions of UK subscribers to BBC News alerts on iOS devices. The BBC said it had not been hacked. “We’ve...